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Dish Drops HD Enabling Fee

Scott Greczkowski

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Its nice to post some good news about Dish Network!

Just got word that as of April 7th Dish Network has dropped the $5 a month HD Enabling fee down to $0!

Customers who had ViP MPEG4 receivers but did not subscribe to HD packages had to pay this $5 a month fee to watch HD locals and HD premium channels.

Its great to see this fee go away... Now only if they got rid of the Per DVR fee...
 
Oh man I thought it was the Hard Drive enabling fee from the title. Hopes up.....then back down.
 
This would be real nice for those in a financial pinch who had to downgrade to a basic package and locals to save even a little more.

Way to go Dish!

With that being said, here's to hoping this is not the only "release" for today ...
 
Here is an email that was just sent to retailes.

 
I hope this means that all customers will son be getting MPEG-4 equipment so they can start the long and slow MPEG-2 transition for SD channels.
 
I predict no new national HD in first uplink report today but plenty of local HD is uplinked
 
This is good news, I'm not hit with this fee now but it opens up options. I was ready to walk if the HD Absolute package was removed or substantially increased in price but now I would probably downgrade to premiums only.
 
Enabling fees and the like contribute to customer deflections. Looks like their marketing guys are finally starting to understand what irritates customers.
 
nelson61 said:
Enabling fees and the like contribute to customer deflections. Looks like their marketing guys are finally starting to understand what irritates customers.
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They had become the new pig in town, hopefully this is the beginning of the removal of all those stupid fees.
 
Looks like someone has been reading my posts about eliminating extra made up fees. Now lets get rid of dvr fee PER receiver and make the dvr advantage cover ALL dvrs on the account, and the no phone line connection fee and you might be on par with DIRECTV. Especially since DISH can't seem to make any new hd channels appear as promised.
 
this means they are expecting to lose the tivo court battle and they are going to have to start offering mpeg4 boxes to circumvent paying tivo..

 
VinceT3 said:
this means they are expecting to lose the tivo court battle and they are going to have to start offering mpeg4 boxes to circumvent paying tivo..

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It could also mean that Dish is about to start transitioning some SD programming to MPEG-4 across the board i.e., both Eastern and Western Arcs.
 
rocatman said:
It could also mean that Dish is about to start transitioning some SD programming to MPEG-4 across the board i.e., both Eastern and Western Arcs.
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The key word in your post is "start". There are a lot of MPEG 2 boxes out there that will need to be replaced first.
 
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